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I don't know if you noticed but I've been
working on a little project for the last "few" days :)
I've been calling it "present in
2016" and the more I think about it the more excited I am.
So, what's this all about? It's actually
very simple - I'd like to invite you to be more present in the upcoming year;
to notice things that are happening around you, things that happen only to you,
the little things that you find on your walks or while you're out drinking
coffee and browsing a nearby magazine. I invite you to note them down in your
journal or a notebook or a planner and with doing this, this action alone, making
yourself be here more, noticing more, observing more.
I know we live in extremely fast world,
things need to happen fast, everything needs to be done almost yesterday and
with all the tasks of our everyday lives we put ourselves in “auto-pilot” mode;
it’s our safety mechanism for coping with all the stress. And sometimes we
notice that the whole week, or even month has gone by and we have almost no
idea about what happened during this time - and it bothers us, right? I know it
does bother me and I am trying to live by the rule of “slowing down to smell
the roses” a lot and I will continue to do so even more.
Why exactly am I so excited about this?
Well, it’s because I’d like to invite you to join me in this quest of “being
here”. Grab a notebook, use your favourite journal, make yourself a weekly
planner from the files I prepared or just go and buy one - it really doesn’t
matter - as long as you have all the days in a year in it and some space to
write things down - something like this:
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| weekly planner for 2016 designed by yours truly ;) |
Then, I challenge you to start noticing
things and at the end of the day, note them down. Did you open your newspaper on
a page and something really grabbed your attention? Tear that out and glue it
in your notebook. Were you thinking about a question and an interesting song
came on the radio and it had just the answer for you? Note it down. Did you see
something interesting while commuting? Note it down. Yes, it’s this simple. All
these things make you be here more, more perceptive and often, they make the
time slow down a bit. Try it, you’ll be surprised.
I will open up a FB group for this because
I’d love to hear about your synchronicities, special moments, hear about a good
guided meditation you found on-line or anything good really. We need to share,
write things down and with doing this, help each other.
And if you know me, making art will not
stay out of all this :) I think a really
good challenge would be to make weekly art pieces that would mirror what
actually happened in that week. And because we’ll be noting things down, it’ll
be easy to sit down, relive the week again and do some kind of art to honor it,
to show we’ve been there, felt it, seen it...
I know some of you already do it and I’d love you to join me and share
your art with others and inspire all of us.
I’ll be setting up the group in the next
week but I wanted to give you all a heads up to think about this and hopefully
making you want to be present a bit more ;)
Let me know if you’re interested in joining
and what kind of things you’d like to see in the group as well. I know that if
we go and do this, it’ll be really really good!
Wishing you all a very happy Sunday!
With love,
nini
p.s.
if you like my little planner that I made for myself, I am offering it as a downloadable file in my Etsy shop - 2016 weekly planner I'll be honored and very thankful for your support if you'll use it.
